SpellCheckerBase.PrepareSuggestions Event

Occurs when a misspelled word is found and a list of suggested replacements is created and sorted.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraSpellChecker

Assembly: DevExpress.SpellChecker.v22.2.Core.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.SpellChecker.Core

Declaration

C#

public event PrepareSuggestionsEventHandler PrepareSuggestions

VB.NET

Public Event PrepareSuggestions As PrepareSuggestionsEventHandler

Event Data

The PrepareSuggestions event's data class is PrepareSuggestionsEventArgs. The following properties provide information specific to this event:

Property	Description
Suggestions	Provides access to the collection of prepared suggestions.
Word	Gets a misspelled word for which the suggestions have been prepared.

Example

The following code of the SpellCheckerBase.PrepareSuggestions event handler checks whether the misspelled word matches the specified pattern. If it does, a word to replace the misspelled word is added to the list of suggestions in the SpellChecker context menu.

Note

A complete sample project is available at https://github.com/DevExpress-Examples/out-of-maintenance-how-to-display-spellchecker-context-menu-for-standard-text-controls-textbox-and-r

Form1.cs

void spellChecker1_PrepareSuggestions(object sender, PrepareSuggestionsEventArgs e)
{
    string pattern = "(De|de)[a-z]+x[a-z]*s+";
    System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex rgx = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(pattern);
    if (rgx.IsMatch(e.Word)) e.Suggestions.Insert(0, new SuggestionBase("DevExpress", 0));
}

Form1.vb

Private Sub spellChecker1_PrepareSuggestions(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As PrepareSuggestionsEventArgs)
    Dim pattern As String = "(De|de)[a-z]+x[a-z]*s+"
    Dim rgx As New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(pattern)
    If rgx.IsMatch(e.Word) Then
        e.Suggestions.Insert(0, New SuggestionBase("DevExpress", 0))
    End If
End Sub